AI Applications: A Taxonomy
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2025 Annual Meeting, Digital Life Institute, Online, via Zoom, Seminar, Oct 30, 2025.
This presentation offers a taxonomy of AI application defined along the lines of the benefits or uses we obtain from AI systems: descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, prescriptive, generative, and deontic. The purpose of creating such a taxonomy is to offer an alternative to risk-based or fear-based analyses of ethics in AI.
Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca
Copyright 2026
Last Updated: Mar 11, 2026 11:13 a.m.
Last Updated: Mar 11, 2026 11:13 a.m.

